GSC at Microbial Commons International Workshop

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: MICROBIAL COMMONS
Designing the Microbial Research Commons:
learning from institutional policies
and collaborative network technologies
12-13 June 2008
Het Pand, Ghent, Belgium
http://www.microbialcommons.org
Dear colleague,
As part of an international undertaking and collaboration between Science
Commons, the StrainInfo.net bioportal, the Genomic Standards Consortium,
Bioversity International and the US national committees of CODATA, IUMS
and IUBS, an international conference on the building of an [...]

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Feedback requested from GSC on MINSEQE

As an output of discussions at the recent MGED-organized UHTS standardization workshop, a new MI checklist is being developed. Participants at the workshop included representatives from the GSC, SRF, the short read trace archives, major sequencing centres, large projects like ENCODE, vendors, funders and researchers generating data.
The checklist is called the “Minimum Information about a [...]

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GSC vote: Genomic Rosetta Stone and LinkOut implementation

There is currently a vote open to GSC members, with a closing date of 2nd April 2008 23.00GMT.
The vote concerns the implementation of the Genomic Rosetta Stone utilising NCBI LinkOut. To state your preferred option please visit:
http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/Vote.001:_GRS_LinkOut_Implementation

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